Transformations of Body, Materials and Earth, 1st Edition

Above the Rooftops, 1st Edition

What do pigeons, antennas, lottery, mosquitoes, congas, and cactuses have in common? Aerial Imagination in Cuba offers a series of ethnographic accounts to explore various practices and beliefs that have seemingly nothing in common; but if you look at the sky, there is more than…

Witnessing in Times of Social Media, 1st Edition

Image Testimonies contributes to the ongoing debate of testimony and witnessing. Whereas testimony and witnessing have been largely theorized within the framework of epistemological, philosophical, ethical and media-theoretical perspectives, the contributions in this volume focus on images and…

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Both rchitecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, the fields shared a common icon—the primitive hut—and a common concern with both routine and ceremonial human needs and behaviours. Both could lay strong…

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Visualising Urban Austerity, 1st Edition

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European context, crisis is seen as a threat to the stability of the region, rather than a local or national concern. Post-2008, crisis is social and political,…

Iterations with Difference, 1st Edition

This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the…

Social Science Research in Motion, 1st Edition

This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences, it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data. The collection…

Experiments in an Emerging Field, 1st Edition

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. Why, by whom, and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned,…

Itineraries, Gaps and Obstacles, 1st Edition

Although research on contemporary pilgrimage has expanded considerably since the early 1990s, the conversation has largely been dominated by Anglophone researchers in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and religious studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Northern Europe.…

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The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact…

Materials, Practices, Affects, 1st Edition

How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity?
Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by focusing on iconography, meaning, communication and…